Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem
Date: 2013-10-10 14:24:26
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I actually had the thought that it might be something we'd integrate
> *into* initdb.  So you'd do initdb --system-memory 8GB or something
> like that and it would do the rest.  That'd be slick, at least IMHO.

How would you handle the case that the machine (whether physical or
a VM) later gets more RAM?  That's certainly not unheard of with
physical servers, and with VMs I'm not sure that the database
server would necessarily go through a stop/start cycle for it.

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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